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...slip-up when it came to the payoff. Louis Johnson raised the money for the campaign, when the Democratic Party treasury was at its lowest. It was a great political service and Fund Raiser Johnson knew what he wanted. Harry Truman made a few halfhearted attempts to fob him off with offers of the sub-Cabinet Army secretaryship or the Court of St. James's. But Louis Johnson stood fast. The weekend after his inauguration, President Harry Truman let Louis Johnson know that the prize was his at last...
...secondly, why does Mr. Reynolds try to fob off such a lame excuse. Perhaps we all are not honor students, but please give us credit for a reasonable amount of intelligence. Unfortunately I have at one time or another become quite intimate with the Cambridge police. A week ago the desk sergeant down at Central Square gave me the following bit of information: He could not understand why that parking area should be a fire hazard at night and not in the day. After all, less fires start from cigarettes when the students are asleep. During the daytime students...
...other action on the intramural front, Adams, behind the pitching slants of Stan Johnson, downed Fob Cobb's Eliot House, Irregulars...
Between-halves festivities found bands from both organizations parading, as "Big E" and "Big K" formation sped up, down, and off the field. Eliot's spirited cheerleaders, headed by "Fob" Cobb, ripped off sizable gains through ill-organized Deacon defenses, but the big surprise of the day was attributed to William J. Bingham '16, who craftily provided collapsible goalposts to foil the jubilant throng of rooters which stormed out of the north stands after the contest...
Completely ignoring the forty-year-old axiom that a horse opera is judged solely by the amount of gore sprayed around the set, Republic Pictures have refused to fob off a thousand rounds of ammunition as entertainment and have turned out a refreshingly novel movie. Although the "Angel and the Badman" contains enough of the usual ingredients to satisfy any grammar school desperado, the clever and entirely feasible plot will be a welcome relief to gun-shy adults...